Personal Narrative: The Anne Frank Museum

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7 months ago I had the amazing opportunity to travel the world with my best friends and now family. Along our travels, specifically in Amsterdam, all of us visited the Anne Frank Museum something all of us have been learning about for over half our school-life. After months of studying, researching, and reading about the Holocaust I was gifted a breathtaking opportunity to visit one of the most famous stories taking place during that time, The Anne Frank House. There was sort of an energy when u stepped inside, because not only did u feel it mentally knowing what happened within those walls but physically I got chills and an indescribable feeling throughout the whole way I was in there. It was weird I suppose, not in a bad way. But as soon

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